Sunday, July 31, 2016

I recently delivered a Meetup session on AzureAD in Chennai Microsoft Azure Group and had a great experience meeting fellow IT Pros in my region. I planned this session by beginning with the Basics and extend the discussion step by step towards the advanced features, and effectively shared my learning and real time experience with the participants and gained a lot of positive feedback.

I would strongly encourage everyone to take active part in the Meetup events hosted in their regions by fellow Community members, This is the best place for you to share your learning and experience that puts you one level up in your career.

Following the announcement of Microsoft Azure Information Protection in June, Now Azure Information Protection is Available in public preview that brings together Azure Rights Management (RMS) and classification and labeling technologies from Secure Islands.

This initial preview comprises two components:

An Azure management portal for the configuration and management of information protection policies, rules and labels.

An Azure Information Protection client for the consumption and enforcement of classification, labeling and protection policies across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook (2010/13/16).

One of the most significant announcement for this month is the renaming of of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) to Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) and the announcement of a new expanded EMS E5 plan. This change really makes sense with the current features available in the new plan.

b. Azure AD Premium P2, generally available later in Q3 2016, includes all the capabilities in Azure AD Premium P1 as well as the new Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management capabilities.

Additionally, Microsoft Azure AD team recently announced the new step-by-step guided set up for Azure AD Premium. This helps Organizations to make sure they are getting the most from their Azure AD Premium subscription.

Microsoft team recently announced the public preview of the new Office 365 Network. With this movement Microsoft team is moving the Office 365 Network from yammer to their new Lithium platform. This change has generated mixed views from most of the existing members and Microsoft team is ready to hear your feedback and current Office 365 Network will permanently redirect to the new community starting September 1, 2016.

Additionally, This Month we have a new Hybrid Identity and ADFS, AzureAD Mailbag Series that answers important FAQs that exist today for most of of the customer using AD FS in a Hybrid Idenity model with AzureAD.